JC Rider

Floundering in our national discourse.

[🇺🇸 Justice @250_Revolution]

Concerning Social Security payments, my contributions were made for 40 years on every salary I received. Those jobs may not have always been the work I wanted to be doing at the time, BUT I always had a job. The Social Security check is now (or soon will be) referred to as a "Federal Benefit Payment?" I'll be part of the one percent to forward this.

I am forwarding it because it touches a nerve in me, and I hope it will in you. Please keep passing it on until everyone in our country has read it. The government is now referring to our Social Security checks as a "Federal Benefit Payment." This isn't a benefit. It is our money paid out of our earned income! Not only did we all contribute to Social Security but our employers did too. It totaled 15% of our income before taxes.

If you averaged $30K per year over your working life, that's close to $180,000 invested in Social Security. If you calculate the future value of your monthly investment in social security ($375/month, including both you and your employers contributions) at a meager 1% interest rate compounded monthly, after 40 years of working you'd have more than $1.3+ million dollars saved! This is your personal investment. Upon retirement, if you took out only 3% per year, you'd receive $39,318 per year, or $3,277 per month.

That's almost three times more than today's average Social Security benefit of $1,230 per month, according to the Social Security Administration. (Google it – it’s a fact).

And your retirement fund would last more than 33 years (until you're 98 if you retire at age 65)! I can only imagine how much better most average-income people could live in retirement if our government had just invested our money in low-risk interest-earning accounts.

Instead, the folks in Washington pulled off a bigger "Ponzi scheme" than Bernie Madoff ever did. They took our money and used it elsewhere. They forgot (oh yes, they knew) that it was OUR money they were taking. They didn't have a referendum to ask us if we wanted to lend the money to them. And they didn't pay interest on the debt they assumed. And recently they've told us that the money won't support us for very much longer.
But is it our fault they misused our investments? And now, to add insult to injury, they're calling it a "benefit", as if we never worked to earn every penny of it.
Just because they borrowed the money doesn't mean that our investments were a charity!

Let's take a stand. We have earned our right to Social Security and Medicare. Demand that our legislators bring some sense into our government.
Find a way to keep Social Security and Medicare going for the sake of that 92% of our population who need it. Then call it what it is: Our Earned Retirement Income.

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[TonemanLives 🇺🇸🇮🇹 @TonemanLives]

@LeaderJohnThune RESIGN! This isn’t a happy how was your weekend post because frankly I hope your weekend was terrible. Terrible like you made over half the countries weekend, terrible.

We were able to do the impossible. Get the Save America Act passed through Congress. Hardly anything gets through Congress because of weak, manipulated leadership, but somehow we got this through. How? Because 80% of all Americans on both sides want fair elections. A no brainer that even Mike Johnson got it to go through and where did it wind up?

On your desk to die. Maybe you don’t realize this or you simply don’t give a fuck, but the American people overwhelmingly want this to pass into law. Democrats, Republicans, white, black, brown want this to pass but you won’t let it. I won’t ask why because we know the answer. You’re nothing more than a pacifying, corrupt, pussy!

You’ve had the power the minute it landed on your desk and we had 50 votes to get it done. Yet you stonewalled. You made up every excuse including saying even if you nuked the filibuster there’s not enough time to get it done. You really think we are that stupid? Do you think anyone believes your bullshit? That answer is a strong NO! If you nuked it when the papers were on your desk it would be law by now.

Don’t think we aren’t pissed at the rest of your Republican friends. They will not get a pass. They must own this along with you for sneaking out in the middle of the night to go on another vacation while the American people are left with the notion, fair elections don’t matter as long as the Apple cart isn’t disrupted and you all get to play big shots behind your desks in DC.

You know exactly what I’m talking about Marsha. You think we didn’t see you wheeling your luggage in the middle of the night to jump on a plane while leaving us stranded? You don’t think we know your masquerading about fighting for the Save America Act was all a made for TV stunt to make it look like you actually care?

Leader Thune, I don’t see what Trump sees in you. He says you’re a nice guy who has his hands full. Full of what? Money from above so you can fuck we the people over and stick it to our country? @DonaldTrump @POTUS We all know you are even more frustrated than us. We understand you get more with honey than vinegar but we don’t understand why you continue to let this charade continue. We don’t have the time nor the patience anymore. We need this done now!

No matter how nice you are to Thune you must remember this guy hates you. He is on record trying to replace you. He is running out the clock and you know who loses? MAGA loses! America loses! Worse they win?

Explain to us why you haven’t kicked that McConnell kiss ass to the curb and put JD Vance in charge of the Senate? They only want to sabotage your Presidency and to let things go back to the way they were starting with open borders and unlimited programs to siphon their ill gotten gains. Sir I know you want a fully functioning Republican Party but that’s never going to happen these misfits. They are either corrupt, owned, manipulated or too big a pussy to ever be on the same page as us.

Now we lost another two weeks we don’t have to spare and when they come back with their suntans from their vacations, do you think anything is going to change? These people are under control. Manipulated, following orders to play along, stall and to NEVER pass the Save America Act.

Mr President you are always two steps ahead. This will end your Presidency and they will spend your last two years going after you and your entire administration. Dems aren’t like the gelded Republicans. You know this. You understand this. Give them an inch and they’ll take the entire administration down. We beg you to insert Vance, nuke the filibuster and pass the Save America Act. We voted for you, we put our lives in your hands because we trust you. We love you. Now it is time to take charge of the Party. That’s what we voted for
. My two cents

[Joe Abraham @angeldadjoe]

.@GovPritzker, you cannot blame the federal government for your failures. You’ve chosen to limit cooperation with federal immigration enforcement and advance sanctuary policies, but you haven’t put equally strong safeguards in place to protect your own citizens and uphold public safety. You favor illegal immigrants and provide special privileges and consideration which citizens are not entitled to.

You cannot have it both ways. You don’t get to deflect blame when the consequences surface.

If you choose to sideline federal frameworks, the responsibility doesn’t disappear, it shifts squarely onto your shoulders. That means owning the outcomes, not pointing fingers when things go wrong. Right now, what’s missing isn’t just policy clarity, it’s accountability.

Leadership isn’t about ideology; it’s about responsibility. If your policies create gaps, you answer for those gaps. If your approach introduces risk, you confront it directly. Silence, deflection, and blame-shifting aren’t leadership, they’re avoidance.

So you’re either the governor of Illinois, or you’re not. Leadership means owning the outcomes of your decisions, not shifting responsibility when those decisions are questioned.

Either you take responsibility for the system you’ve built, or you admit it isn’t working. But refusing to do either erodes trust and leaves the public without clear answers from the person ultimately in charge.

And silence on cases like Katie’s only deepens the sense that responsibility is being avoided. Say her name: Katie Abraham.

[Illinois Review @IllinoisReview]

Invoice sent.
Billed to: Gov. JB Pritzker.
Amount: $20,000,000,000.
For contracts awarded to companies in his “blind trust.”

Illinois taxpayers are requesting a refund.

[Slats Grobnik @MissinRoyko]

Darren Bailey states the obvious …… Ted Dabrowski tells you how he’s going to fix it

Ted Dabrowski is the Republicans best choice for Governor ……

[Joel Pollak @joelpollak]

Although we all knew @ScottAdamsSays was dying, it remains jarring that we can't just meet him again for coffee every morning. He was strong until the end; he was dispensing incredible advice until just a few days ago, speaking to thousands as soon as he went live. Missing him.

[Megan Basham @megbasham]

Scott is closer, but he still thinks of Christianity as hedging one’s bets, à la Pascal’s wager. But the thief on the cross did not say, “I’ll go with it as a just-in-case option.” He believed and called Christ Lord. Re-doubling my prayers for Scott.

[Laura Ingraham @IngrahamAngle]

My friends, please take a moment right now to stop what you’re doing and pray for Victor Davis Hanson. This national treasure is confronting a major health challenge and especially today needs us to lift him up in prayer. Thank you.

[JC Rider @ClemsRight]

@ScottAdamsSays Thank you Scott for the update, healing thoughts and my heartfelt prayers sent your way friend.

[The Babylon Bee @TheBabylonBee]

Jasmine Crockett Hits Campaign Trail To Axe For Votes https://t.co/II8bGYfSfD

[JC Rider @ClemsRight]

@ClownWorld 1941, underrated classic

[ChairmanOohMowMow @ooh_mow]

I was there when they were meeting in Aspen to discuss creative ways to stop free speech.

I was there when they were emailing Jack and Zuck, on an hourly basis, with names of accounts that they wanted silenced.

I was there when demanded that anyone who questioned the origins of Covid, or masks, or lockdowns, should be permanently removed from social media.

I was there when they said if you didn’t get vaccinated you shouldn’t be allowed to buy groceries.

Hell, I was there when they smoked my account, with 50,000 followers.

I was there when they started de-banking people for the things they said.

I was there when they cheered and popped bottles of champagne, because the President of the United States had his Twitter account suspended.

I was there when threw a guy in jail for a meme.

I was there when they tracked down a forklift driver and got him fired.

I was there when they tried to get a kid killed because they didn’t like his “smirk”.

I’ve been there for the last six months, as they happily SWATTED people they didn’t agree with.

And I was there when they climbed onto a roof and shot a man, because they thought his speech was becoming a little too effective.

So, spare me, with your newfound reverence for free speech.

Don’t even try it.

[TonemanLives 🇺🇸🇮🇹 @TonemanLives]

Another thing that gets lost in all of this. DOGE uncovered all the millions set up in bullshit accounts that funded all the hatred and propaganda. Now that there is no more money supporting their take down America bullshit, you are witnessing a slow death as the money dries up.

There is no longer any funding to move on with their Communist ant-Capitalism movement and we are witnessing them growing weaker by the day with no money on sight to revive their anti-American push. DOGE did a helluva lot of good exposing them all behind the scenes and we are now reaping the rewards from all their tenacious and brave efforts. DOGE is owed a debt that can never be repaid in helping our movement forward and it is time to give them their due diligence for all they’ve uncovered for the world to see. Without DOGE it would be business as usual for the Dems. They uncovered it, came and conquered, all while wearing a giant bullseye on their back. God Bless them all for what they’ve done

[The Uman @TheUman23]

It's pretty clear that Chicago and Illinois are just going to get worse without recovery. No legitimate opposition to the radical far left from moderate Democrats or the spineless Republican Party. Too many decent people moved away from the state. Too many ignorant voters remain.

[JC Rider @ClemsRight]

@TylerRatcliff17 @mericanrefugee Looks like governor JB to me but thinner.

[JC Rider @ClemsRight]

@ILGOP So we’re looking at an incumbent Senate seat and governor race, who are you running?
Illinois republicans are a joke!

[JC Rider @ClemsRight]

@JeanneIves Edgar leads the pack in disappointing worthless Illinois republicans.

[JC Rider @ClemsRight]

@ILGOP IL GOP is a damn joke, get busy finding us a candidate to replace Durbin that can win in 26, this bloated ass will flame out before 28.

[The Babylon Bee @TheBabylonBee]

CNN: Behind Closed Doors, Pope Is Still Focused, Sharp, And Energetic https://t.co/YBvTNYRatn